How to Use right to remain silent in a Sentence

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• Lazarus said the man had a right to remain silent but spoke out of fear.
  — Anna Heqimi, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
• All people have the right to remain silent and should practice that right when detained.
  — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2025
• Perez Cespedes invoked his right to remain silent, court records show.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
• Trump had every right to do so, and chose to instead exercise his right to remain silent at trial.
  — Barbara McQuade, TIME, 4 June 2024
• This includes the right to remain silent and to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
  — Samantha Leal, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 2025
• The judge read Trump his rights, including his right to remain silent and right to an attorney.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
• People have the right to remain silent, even if an ICE agent has a warrant.
  — Sofi Zeman february 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2026
• Figueroa invoked his right to remain silent, according to court documents.
  — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2023
• And teachers have the right to remain silent in the face of questioning, even from ICE agents.
  — Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
• And the court said by repeating his intention not to talk, that's not an invocation of the right to remain silent.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2026
• Stoudemire then exercised his right to remain silent, according to the Herald.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
• Saint-Joie, who was a passenger in the car, chose to invoke his right to remain silent, according to the complaint.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 16 June 2021
• Exercise your rights The Fifth Amendment grants people the right to remain silent.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2025
• Joshua obtained a lawyer and invoked his right to remain silent when police attempted to interview him, the warrant states.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024
• The First Amendment right to remain silent is as compelling as the First Amendment right to speak.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 6 Nov. 2024
• Billingsley read aloud, and then initialed next to, sentences explaining his right to remain silent and his right to have an attorney present, among others.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
• Brafman’s attorney, the arrest report said, advised him to indulge in his right to remain silent rather than answer questions about the video.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
• After he was arrested, Shand invoked his right to remain silent, prosecutors said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• The Fifth Amendment says people accused of crimes have the right to remain silent to avoid self incrimination.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2022
• But the politicians and aides involved in those investigations invoked the right to remain silent, and the cases were all closed for lack of evidence.
  — Ido Baum, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2013
• Spiller has exercised his right to remain silent since being taken into custody, authorities say.
  — Dan Carson, Chron, 30 Nov. 2022
• Kassabian ruled that Giampa had not waived his right to remain silent knowingly or intelligently at the time.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• Zuberi asserted his right to remain silent during a federal court appearance in Nevada, court records show.
  — Maxine Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Crimo made the confession in a voluntary statement after being reminded of his right to remain silent, officials said.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 6 July 2022
• The congressional staffer, who has since resigned from his job, exercised his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and refused to talk to us.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2024
• The suspect, whose name was not released, invoked his right to remain silent and refused to speak in depth with authorities, McCabe said.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
• This means that people detained by ICE have the right to remain silent during interrogations.
  — Rose Cuison-Villazor, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
• Separately, a lawyer for an informant said Steve Robeson would invoke his right to remain silent if called as a witness by the defense.
  — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2022
• Richards, the defense attorney, objected that Binger was commenting on the defendant’s right to remain silent.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2021
• Everyone has the right to remain silent and does not have to disclose their immigration status when encountering federal agents.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025